On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ian Barwick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > A long-time lurker writes: > > 2009/12/14 Euler Taveira de Oliveira <[email protected]>: >> Dave Page escreveu: >>> Do you know if this will have any unpleasant side-effects in Japan or >>> other regions with what we would consider to be unusual keyboard >>> layouts? >>> >>> >> As I said, I don't know if we'll have problems with it; but if they map Fx >> key >> to some character, they have trouble using our shortcuts anyway. Could >> Hiroshi >> or someone else confirm this? > > The function keys on Japanese keyboards (I am typing on one right now) > are not used for any special Japanese characters. They can be used when > inputting Japanese to modify the input string, but any keypresses should be > caught by the IME and not passed through to the underlying application. > When inputting SQL, the keyboard would effectively be the same as a US > keyboard. The same applies, AFAIK, to other East Asian languages. > > I also happen to have a Thai keyboard knocking around and the function > keys are not used for anything special there either.
Thanks for the info Ian, that's good to know. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
